Bask Iyer, chief information officer and IoT manager at VMware Inc., has been named interim CIO of Dell Inc., the company formed after the combination of Dell and EMC Corp.

He fills in for Chief Information Officer ML Krakauer, who is taking a temporary leave of absence for “personal reasons,” a Dell spokesman said. He could not provide detail on how long Ms. Krakauer is expected to be out.

Mr. Iyer will assume his Dell duties alongside his responsibilities at VMware, the spokesman said. VMware is part of EMC’s federation of wholly and partially owned subsidiaries that, along with Dell Inc., makes up Dell Technologies.

In July, Mr. Iyer spoke with CIO Journal about his team’s work to build infrastructure tools that car companies could use to manage software updates pushed out to connected cars. He said his team also is working on systems of sensors, software and geo-positioning technology to help VMware employees find charging stations for the electric cars they drive to work each day.